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The deal, which includes $530 million in cash, will give Ciena the products, platforms and IP that are used by Nortel in the business. Ciena’s deal is the step in Nortel’s decision to dismantle much of its business since filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Several other vendors, including Avaya, Nokia Siemens and Telefon AB already have bought other of Nortel’s units, such as the enterprise and wireless businesses.
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After more than a year of repairs, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest machine, restarts in Geneva.
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Despite a false depressurization caution alarm, the space shuttle Atlantis is on target and ahead of schedule to complete a near perfect -- so far -- mission to the International Space Station.
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The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it's replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM's iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
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Under a proposal before New York City Council Committee on Technology in Government, New York City would endorse Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's initiative to codify and broaden FCC's network neutrality principles.
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The Programmers Guild and other litigants fighting a 2008 Department of Homeland Security decision to extend from 12 months to 29 months the amount of time mathematics, engineering, science or technology students are allowed to work after graduation under an optional practical training program say it amounts to little more than a back-door attempt to circumvent the H-1B visa cap.
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An ombudsman with the European Union says the European Commission erred in its investigation of Intel by failing to take minutes of a 2006 meeting with a Dell executive. The EC in May fined Intel $1.45 billion for anticompetitive practices, but Intel is appealing the ruling. Intel executives have characterized the EC as conducting a biased investigation.
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Intel and three French research institutes are planning to invest several million euros to create a supercomputing facility to explore the outer limits of high-performance computing. The Exascale Computing Research Center will tackle issues related to weather forecasting and health care.
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Industry-standard technology, GPUs and energy efficiency were among the key themes running throughout the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Ore. At the show, which wraps up Nov. 20, a number of vendors, including Cray, Dell, HP and SGI, showed off new and enhanced high-end systems, many of which are designed to enable businesses and HPC (high-performance computing) environments to ramp up performance and density while driving down operational, capital and power costs. In addition, Intel unveiled that it will offer a "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor optimized for supercomputing, while the chip maker boasted that 402 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by its processors. Rival AMD took the No. 1 spot, with the Opteron-powered "Jaguar" computer from Cray knocking off IBM's "RoadRunner" at the top of the list. Here are a few of the new systems OEMs showed off at the show.
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The No. 4 ranking handset maker will eliminate another 1,600 jobs and close its headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
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The National Broadband Plan task force cites a number of challenges hamstringing widespread broadband adoption, including limits on the Universal Service Fund and a growing demand for spectrum. The task force faces a Feb. 17 deadline for submitting a broadband plan to Congress.
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Microsoft finds itself under fire from a Chinese court, which ruled that older versions of Windows violate an intellectual property agreement between Microsoft and Beijing-based software company Zhongyi Electronic. The property in question is two Chinese fonts used in Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is also fighting a handful of stateside battles over patents and intellectual property.
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After an October peer-to-peer security incident that inadvertently exposed the list of ongoing investigations by the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Ed Towns introduces legislation to restrict the use of P2P software by government employees or federal contractors.
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IBM researchers at the Supercomputing show say they and their university partners have hit two key milestones in their efforts to develop a computer that can monitor data and act on it in ways similar to a human brain. The development of such a computer could help businesses more logically act on the rapidly growing streams of data that are generated.
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In a new report released by McAfee, several noted security experts discuss the improving cyber-warfare capabilities of the world's superpowers and the risks facing critical infrastructures.
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